Florentine Koppenborg

Mar 14, 2024 | nuclear-news.net | Florentine Koppenborg |Christina MacPherson

Japan’s Nuclear Energy Policy Disaster The yawning gap between vision and policy reality jeopardizes Japan’s important energy security goals and efforts to decarbonize the energy supply. By Florentine Koppenborg, March 08, 2024,  https://thediplomat.com/2024/03/japans-nuclear-energy-policy-disaster/The Japanese government is chasing a nuclear mirage 13 years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011.

Mar 9, 2024 | thediplomat.com | Florentine Koppenborg

The Japanese government is chasing a nuclear mirage 13 years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011. Government statements in support of nuclear power, such as the recent declaration at COP28 that Japan will triple nuclear energy by 2050, receive much attention. Away from the public spotlight, however, Japan is facing a nuclear energy policy disaster as it struggles to actually return to nuclear energy after the Fukushima nuclear accident.

Mar 8, 2024 | tribunecontentagency.com | Florentine Koppenborg

The Japanese government is chasing a nuclear mirage 13 years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011. Government statements in support of nuclear power, such as the recent declaration at COP28 that Japan will triple nuclear energy by 2050, receive much attention. Away from the public spotlight, however, Japan is facing a nuclear energy policy disaster as it struggles to actually return to nuclear energy after the Fukushima nuclear accident.

Oct 24, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | Florentine Koppenborg |Andrew J. Nathan |Zongyuan Liu |Axel Dreher

In This Review In This Review Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety GovernanceJapan’s traditionally weak system for regulating nuclear safety, created by the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party and its allies, allowed what came to be known as the 3.11 disaster (after the March 11 earthquake in 2011), when a tsunami spurred the meltdown of one of the nuclear power plants at Fukushima.